On Picket Duty And Other Tales Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781484962398
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book On Picket Duty, and Other Tales written by Louisa May Alcott and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT air you thinkin' of, Phil? "My wife, Dick." "So was I! Aint it odd how fellers fall to thinkin' of thar little women, when they get a quiet spell like this?" "Fortunate for us that we do get it, and have such gentle bosom guests to keep us brave and honest through the trials and temptations of a life like ours." October moonlight shone clearly on the solitary tree, draped with gray moss, scarred by lightning and warped by wind, looking like a venerable warrior, whose long campaign was nearly done; and underneath was posted the guard of four. Behind them twinkled many camp-fires on a distant plain, before them wound a road ploughed by the passage of an army, strewn with the relics of a rout. On the right, a sluggish river glided, like a serpent, stealthy, sinuous, and dark, into a seemingly impervious jungle; on the left, a Southern swamp filled the air with malarial damps, swarms of noisome life, and discordant sounds that robbed the hour of its repose. The men were friends as well as comrades, for though gathered from the four quarters of the Union, and dissimilar in education, character, and tastes, the same spirit animated all; the routine of camp life threw them much together, and mutual esteem soon grew into a bond of mutual good fellowship.